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wording effect: a standalone construct

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Psychometrics

systematic method variance tied to positively versus negatively worded items, which can produce spurious separate factors in scales such as self-esteem.

In psychometrics, wording effect refers to systematic method variance tied to positively versus negatively worded items, which can produce spurious separate factors in scales such as self-esteem. This meaning comes from Marsh (1996) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.[1]

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question wording effect1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct self-esteem4 names · 4 citationsjangle · self-worth, four ways to define it variance4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Marsh, H. W. (1996). Positive and negative global self-esteem: A substantively meaningful distinction or artifactors? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70(4), 810-819. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.70.4.810

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